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Volcanic changes in the region are under way, with the outbreak of Sunni-Shiite wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, unprecedented tension between Washington and Israel, and U.S.-Iranian nuclear talks that appear on the verge of breakthrough. Join us for an expert discussion of these challenges in a live webcast at 12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 1, 2015.

Centrifuges play a critical role in the enrichment of uranium and are a central bargaining point in the Iran nuclear negotiations. In this video, Baker Fellow Simon Henderson uses a child’s toy to explain how centrifuges work and how anomalies can disable them, such as the Stuxnet virus that reportedly sabotaged the Iranian system in 2010.

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